Damien Chazelle Quotes
I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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I never ever Google myself. That way madness lies.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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Never put a sock in a toaster.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score.
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Somebody said to me once that Chvrches was an emo band in disguise, but nobody had figured it out yet, and I thought, 'You're not wrong!'
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...and there aint a goddamn thing anybody can do about it, you know why? Because we've got the bombs! That's why, yeah! Two words: NUCLEAR FUCKIN' WEAPONS! OK?!
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I will try to keep my homily brief. But be warned - I'm Irish.
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Being a person who has had plastic surgery and goes to the gym five days a week to work my muscles up so they don't look atrophied as a 60-year-old, I don't disparage people who want to maintain their appearance. But what I don't want is a society that tells me I have to.
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I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.
